Definition of "assembly"
assembly
/əˈsɛmb.lɪ/
noun
countable and uncountable, plural assemblies
(politics) A legislative body.
(computing, Microsoft .NET) A building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.